WikiTree menu structure change? G2G specific

Question

While I think WikiTree is awesome, I do find the menu a bit confusing. I'm also fairly new so I hope my perspective is valuable from a new user point of view. I'm trying to be constructive and not critical as I think that the G2G portion of WikiTree is probably the most helpful source of genealoogy information and advice in the world (that I have ever seen).

Would it make sense to restructure this a little? Perhaps mobing G2G Feed and G2G Profile over to the Help menu under Forum ("G2G")?

I can kind of see why they are under the My WikiTree menu, but I think grouping them together would make it more easily accessible. In leiu of that, perhaps somewhere on G2G there could be an options to see all of my questions or all of my answers as that's why I'm usually jumping back and forth between G2G and G2G Profile.

Comments

I wanted to add something to this.

The menu structure is actually different depending on where you are in WikiTree. If you are on the main site, the G2G Feed is under the My WikiTree menu dropdown and the G2G Profile is under the Profile (for me, Dunn-12727) menu dropdown. Once you go to G2G Forums that switches around as I described above. I think that may be part of why it seems confusing to me at times. Not confusing perhaps, maybe it makes me have to think and good website/UI design tries to avoid that...

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Billy, FYI there is a two-click option to look at all of your questions or all of your answers.  Just click on your own name, for example, at the bottom of this question and you'll see tabs at the top of your profile for your Q & A and recent activity.

Answer 1

I agree with Billy's pain point, but not with his suggested solution.

There are a number of changes in the menu systems depending on whether you're in G2G or in other parts of WikiTree. The changes make no sense to me, and they may be artifacts of G2G being built in something other than Wikimedia, but here's what I've noticed:

• In most of WikiTree, clicking on the header of the "My WikiTree" menu takes me to my Navigation Home Page. Within G2G, all it does is add a "#" to the end of the URL of whatever page I'm on, and has no other visible effect.
• In most of WikiTree, there is a "Logout" choice at the bottom of the "My WikiTree" menu. Within G2G, it's not there. (This change is a particular nuisance to me, since I normally do one last check of my G2G feed before signing off, and then I have to click on the "My WikiTree" menu and select some choice within it [other than the menu header] to get a logout option.) 
• In most of WikiTree, the "My WikiTree" menu has a "G2G Feed" choice, the menu with my WikiTree ID at the top has a "G2G Profile" choice, the "Add" menu has a "Followed Tags" choice, and the Help menu has a "Forum ("G2G")" choice, which takes me to the Recent Questions page. Within G2G, the "G2G Profile" choice moves to the "My WikiTree" menu, and the menu with my WikiTree ID at the top disappears entirely.

What I would suggest is making a new menu named something like "Forum ("G2G")" (I'd be inclined to put it between the "Find" menu and the "Help" menu, but I'm not married to that), and moving the "G2G Feed", "G2G Profile", and "Followed Tags" choices under that menu. (And leaving them there in both G2G and the rest of WikiTree.)

I'd also like to be able to click on the header of the "My WikiTree" menu to go to my Navigation Home Page, and have the "Logout" choice at the bottom of the "My WikiTree" menu, even within G2G, pretty please. (I'd like access to the menu with my WikiTree ID at the top from within G2G, but that's not as much of a personal frustration for me, so if there's some reason we can't have it, I promise not to sulk for more than a week. Maybe two at most.)

Comments

I was considering that idea as well, but I wasn't sure if that would force a makeover of the header, etc. But yes I agree with you on every point there.

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Billy, to make sure that Chris sees this, I would suggest that you add  "improvements" as a tag and change the category to "WikiTree Tech".

Answer 2

The G2G Feed and G2G Profile are not Help items and should not be listed under the Drop-Down Help Menu and are in the correct location in my opinion.